Phrases/ thème

Phrases/ thèmeMessage de vaiana posté le 11-02-2019 à 02:04:59 (S | E | F)Hello.
Here are some sentences I have attempted to translate.May Could you help me to correct my mistakes please?
Thanks.

1 Marcel me regarda d’un air surpris. Ce n’était pourtant pas la première fois que je lui expliquais la raison de mon départ.
Marcel looked at me with an astonished air. Yet it wasn't the first time I explained to him the reason of my departure.

2 Robert ouvrit les volets et regarda le ciel. Cela faisait au moins trois semaines qu’il n’avait pas plu.
Robert opened the shutters and looked at the sky. It had not been raining since three weeks at least.

2 Robert ouvrit les volets et regarda le ciel. Cela faisait au moins trois semaines qu’il n’avait pas plu.
Robert opened the shutters and looked at the sky. It had not been raining since (pas le bon mot, since marque un point de départ, pas une durée)three weeks at least.

2 Robert ouvrit les volets et regarda le ciel. Cela faisait au moins trois semaines qu’il n’avait pas plu.
Robert opened the shutters and looked at the sky. It had not been raining for three weeks at least.

3 Michel B se disait que cela ferait bientôt dix ans qu’il jouait du piano debout.
Michel B was telling to himself it would be soon ten years since he has played the piano standing up.

2 Robert ouvrit les volets et regarda le ciel. Cela faisait au moins trois semaines qu’il n’avait pas plu.
Robert opened the shutters and looked at the sky. It had not been raining for three weeks at least.

2 Robert ouvrit les volets et regarda le ciel. Cela faisait au moins trois semaines qu’il n’avait pas plu.
Robert opened the shutters and looked at the sky. It had not been raining for three weeks at least.

3 Michel B se disait que cela ferait bientôt dix ans qu’il jouait du piano debout.
Michel B was telling to himself it would be soon ten years since he had played the piano standing up.

1) astonished air (bon, ou "look of surprise")
- Marcel looked at me with an astonished air. Yet it wasn't the first time I had explained to him the reason of my departure.

2) pas de continu, et "since" est faux
- Robert opened the shutters and looked at the sky. It had not rained for three weeks at least.Pourquoi le continu est faux si on veut insister sur la durée ?

3) was playing (pas le bon temps)
- Michel B was telling to himself it would be soon ten years since he had played the piano standing up.

4) to turn over = to turn upside-down, no "to" between "tell" and its object, il existe une traduction plus précise de "avoir envie de"
- Sigourney turned upside-down and told Winona she would go to mass when she felt like it.

5) bewildered (bon, ou "perplexed"), "just like that", "pajamas" (like "jeans") is plural
- Brad was bewildered. His pajamas could not have vanished just like that. He must have forgotten it in uncle Paul's car.